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Overcoming Barriers: How to Help Someone Get Mental Health Care

  • Patients and Families, Serious mental illness, Treatment

When we see a friend or loved one experiencing significant mental health issues, our instinct is to try to help, yet obstacles, including stigma of mental health, are often hard to overcome. A recent commentary by Ken Duckworth, M.D., and Nickki Rashes in the APA journal Focus offers some insights on how to help a loved one reach out for mental health care.

VIDEO: Richard Kogan, M.D., on The Mind and Music of Tchaikovsky

  • Depression

Richard Kogan, M.D., was scheduled to deliver a talk on “Tchaikovsky: Music and Melancholy,” at the APA Annual Meeting in April. It was to be part of a series of lecture-performances that he has presented over the years at APA’s Annual Meetings on the connections between musical artistry and mental illness.

La Salud Mental

La Salud Mental es un sitio web que ofrece información basada en evidencias sobre salud mental y trastornos por consumo de sustancias para las comunidades hispanohablantes de los Estados Unidos.

APA Marks Juneteenth

Today the APA marks the holiday of Juneteenth, which celebrates the announcement of the emancipation of enslaved people in Galveston, TX, in 1865. APA President Vivian Pender, M.D, recorded remarks about the holiday, and APA Deputy Medical Director and Chief of Diversity and Health Equity Regina James, M.D., and CEO and Medical Director Saul Levin, M.D., M.P.A., offered their thoughts on the APA blog.

Rawle Andrews, Jr., Esq., Named Executive Director of the American Psychiatric Association Foundation

Rawle Andrews, Jr., Esq., has been named executive director of the American Psychiatric Association Foundation (APAF) effective September 27, 2021. Andrews comes to APAF from AARP, where he served for 15 years, most recently as vice president and a member of the national leadership team overseeing the organization’s field operations in the seven largest and most diverse states in the country, including the states of California, Florida, New York and Texas.

APA Congratulates Its Members Elected as Officers to the Executive Committee and Board of the World Psychiatric Association

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) today announced that three of its members have been elected to leadership positions at the World Psychiatric Association (WPA). Two will join the Executive Committee for six-year terms as officers of the WPA: APA Past President Paul Summergrad, M.D., will serve as the WPA Secretary for Finances; and Edmond Pi, M.D., who previously served as the WPA USA Zone 2 Representative and vice chair of the APA Scientific Program Committee will serve as WPA Secreta

Leveraging Telepsychiatry for Population Health

Synchronous telepsychiatry has become part of the mental healthcare landscape. Multiple studies have documented its ability to improve access to care for diverse patients in multiple settings and to improve the quality of that care.

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